Piano
All records with piano · Solo piano only
Epigram And Evolution: Complete Piano Works
Complete piano works by Roger Reynolds on two CDs, from Epigram and Evolution (1960) to The Angel of Death (1998-2001), played by Yuji Takahashi, Eric Huebner and Marilyn Nonken, with new recordings and remastered analog reissues.
Tracer - Chamber Works 1952-1999
Chamber works by Earle Brown from 1952 to 1999, from Folio and Four Systems to Tracer, with Christian Wolff and Joan La Barbara among the performers and the tape piece Octet in a new transfer.
Virtuoso Opera Fantasies, Paraphrases & Transcriptions
Two CDs of virtuoso piano fantasies and transcriptions on operas by Puccini, Bellini, Verdi, Debussy, Berg, Bussotti and Volans, played by their arranger Yvar Mikhashoff.
Wolpe in Jerusalem
Stefan Wolpe's music from his Jerusalem years, 1934-38, including three world premiere recordings, played by ensemble recherche and the WDR Symphony Orchestra under Werner Herbers and Johannes Kalitzke.
The Echoing Green
Chamber works by Walter Zimmermann from 1986-89 for piano, cello and piano, bass flute and piano, and violin and piano, played by the HCD Ensemble with cellist Michael Bach and violinist Peter Rundel.
Listen How They Talk
Chamber music by Mexican composer Hilda Paredes, 1998-2001, drawing on Mayan language and culture: works for string quartet, piano quintet, 21 musicians and vocal quartet, with the Arditti Quartet and Ensemble Modern.
Out of Chaos
The first complete CD of music by New York composer Jason Eckardt: four first recordings, After Serra, Tangled Loops, A Glimpse Retraced and Polarities, played by Ensemble 21, saxophonist Taimur Sullivan and pianist Marilyn Nonken.
Shadow of an Idea
Four chamber works by Walter Zimmermann, Schatten der Ideen, Ursache und Vorwitz, Distentio and Shadows of Cold Mountain 3, played by Ensemble Recherche. The music reflects the influence of John Cage and Morton Feldman.
Another Sunrise
Three works by Peter Garland, Another Sunrise, Dreaming of Immortality in a Thatched Cottage and I Have Had to Learn the Simplest Things Last, for pianos, harpsichord, voices and percussion, with Aki Takahashi and Essential Music.
Dancing With Henry
Mostly first recordings of Henry Cowell's music written for dance, many from unpublished manuscripts, including Atlantis, the Ritournelles from Marriage at the Eiffel Tower, Sound Form No. 1 and the Suite for Woodwind Quintet.
Yeo-Neun
** Small repress, absolutely astounding! ** Anyone encountering the efforts of the cellist, Okkyung Lee, faces an unavoidable truth. She’s an unreckonable force. Few players in the contemporary landscape relinquish themselves so completely to the pra…
Preludes: Books 1 & 2
Claude Debussy's two books of Preludes played by Argentine pianist Haydée Schvartz, on 2CD with bonus tracks including a song with baritone Bryan Church. Awarded the 2021 Premio Gardel for Best Classical Album.
Dedicated to Dieter Roth
**Edition of 75 copies, wrapped in printed Schmid drawing, sealed with black rubberband** Visual and sound artist Eric Schmid improvising for an hour on an electronic piano. Schmid’s trampled notes and chords leak out of a big broken faucet on Dedica…
The Piano Equation
"Further honing a singular cosmic musical language, Matthew Shipp begins celebrating his landmark 60th year with this new work for solo piano. The Piano Equation is also the inaugural release from Tao Forms, a new label devoted to enlightened and ele…
Improdimensions
**300 copies** "The second side of this beautiful duo album was recorded more or less half a year after The Swiftest Traveller in Vilnius, while the first one in December 2019. The recordings took place live during the concert series dedicated to imp…
Playing Piano
"Playing Piano features a partially deconstructed upright player piano prepared in the spirit of John Cage. This fully mechanized 1920’s player piano is animated by a motor and pneumatics (as opposed to being played by a person). A perforated paper r…
Everything Falling Crosses Over
**100 copies** Although this is the first full-length offering Mark Trecka has put his name to, he is by no means a new artist. Trecka founded Pillars and Tongues in 2007, has toured and recorded with Dark Dark Dark since 2010, has collaborated with …
Metamorphoses (Book I) / Five Pieces for Piano
George Crumb's earliest and most recent piano works on one CD: the first recording of Metamorphoses (Book I), ten pieces after famous paintings written for Margaret Leng Tan, and the Five Pieces for Piano (1962).
Sextet & Double Sextet
Steve Reich's Sextet (1984) and the Pulitzer Prize winning Double Sextet (2007) together on one release for the first time, played by the Danish ensemble Ekkozone under percussionist and conductor Mathias Reumert.
Kurzwellen
Karlheinz Stockhausen's Kurzwellen (1968) in a new performing version by C.L.S.I. for four instruments, four shortwave radios, six computers and conductor, premiered in 2011 and conducted by Paul Mefano.